Nowadays, almost every user of a personal computer has at least once been infected with a computer virus. And it doesn't matter at all whether you have access to the Internet or not. Viruses can get to you in any way: through a disk, flash drive, etc. Before trying to destroy it, you need to find out if there is a virus and what type it is.
Necessary
computer
Instructions
Step 1
Symptoms that help determine if you have viruses on your computer:
- Slow work (perhaps you just have a lot of programs open that eat up all the virtual memory and therefore the computer slows down).
- It is impossible to load the operating system (it is not always the fault of the virus, but it is possible).
- Programs that worked earlier do not work.
- Files and directories have disappeared or their contents are garbled.
- The date and time of file modification has been changed.
- The computer beeps unexpectedly.
- The number of files on the disk has suddenly changed significantly.
- The size of the files has changed.
- Unexpected messages or images are displayed on the screen.
- The size of free RAM has decreased significantly.
- Frequent freezes and malfunctions began to appear.
If any of the above symptoms are present on your computer, then you may have a virus.
Step 2
Install antivirus. The main task of an antivirus is to find and eliminate a virus. But modern viruses are not so simple, and sometimes it is not easy to find them. Fresh updates of the antivirus itself and the database help to solve this problem, and with a very high degree of probability.
Step 3
Also, if you understand this, you can open the task manager and try to find the virus yourself in the lists of loaded processes. If you do not understand this, then it is better to contact specialists who at the same time will also clean the computer itself from "unnecessary garbage": files, remnants of remote programs, etc.
